Decended in all lines from the 1906 Desert Importation by Homer Davenport
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Davenport's aquired the grey Kehileh-Heife mare
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While
at the Governor's we met Hassan Tasshin Pasha, the wealthiest citizen in
Aleppo, though an exile. The Pasha was one of the most distinguished-looking
men I had ever seen. He was as cheerful as an exile could be, and lived
in the best house in Aleppo. Instead of pining over his fate he had taken
to breeding Arab horses, and he was a stickler for fine blood and an expert
with pedigrees. He believed that there were very few Seglawi Jedrans left
in the north of the desert, and that the Hamdani Simri were confined almost
to the Shammar. We eagerly accepted an opportunity to see his horses.
The first mare that was led into view was a flea-bitten, tall and well-made
gray mare, standing more than fifteen hands high. She was a Kehiley Heife,
a breed much prized, as we had found out from the Anezeh, and playing at
her side was a baby horse colt, foaled in June of that year. The colt was
fat and husky and was chasing dogs. At a distance he looked like a Clydesdale,
without the hair on his legs, and much resembled Reysdack's "Hamiltonian."
The Pasha was pleased at our admiration of his horses, especially as he had been apologizing for them. Indeed they were as fine as anything we had seen in the desert, especially a three-year-old Kehilan Heife stallion, tanding fifteen hands, without a white hair on him;a dark gray Dahman Shahwan, two years old; a three-year-old chestnut stallion, a Seglawi Jedran, brought specially for the Pasha from Nejd, and a chestnut filly two-year-old Kahileh Heife, daughter of the flea-bitten gray mare. We saw Akmet Haffez in conversation with the Pasha, and soon the latter began to talk with much emphasis. It seemed that Haffez was trying to compel the Pasha to sell us the three-year-old bay stallion and that the Pasha had felt embarrassed at being considered a horse-dealer. But Haffez insisted and finally prevailed. The next morning we went again to see the Pasha's horses, and immediately he and Haffez were at it again. Haffez's price bothered our host, and the latter made the declaration that he would not sell them at any price, but if I wanted to accept them as gifts I could. I was afraid Haffez would destroy our friendship with the Pasha, but he seemed to know what he was about and finally compelled the sale of the three horses at prices whichAnd we parted the best of friends.he thought were honest. So, amid much excitement, the gray mare and her colt, and the three-year-old, were picketed with our lot. |
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